There is a funny woman that Broadsheet's writers like. They've posted a few of her videos. At the beginning of her videos, the screen is plastered with those things that interest women, like "underwear."

This woman mocks such sensibilities while Broadsheet's writers "girl crush" on this woman. Yet, this woman mocks Broadsheet's sensibilities and Broadsheet's writers seem unaware, in their eagerness to post yet another piece about something trivial.

Isabella Stewart Gardner (www.gardnermuseum.org) lived with the bluebloods in Boston, but was bored by the conversation of women and socialized with men, which incurred the avenging gossip of those women. When Ms. Gardner's husband died, she turned her creativity to building a house unlike any other: it had a simple facade which belied its fantastical interior. And rather than fill it with rich peers, she opened it to the public and it's open still. So, she was ambitious, generous, and creative. I urge Broadsheet's writers to emulate her, rather than gossiping about Hitchens in the way of all gossips: half truths and bald lies.

There is no other way. So, in this way, all creative people are forgers, trying to forge something new. Creative people don't scrap the old. Rather, creative people scrap the old metal to begin again. The Egyptians didn't even bother with melting. They'd just chisel a new face onto an old statue. Likewise, all painters tweak the paint on old canvases and many obfuscate this reforging with a fog of words.

However, he's an ordinary monster, given all the dittoheads who worship him. When you have that many monsters, they comprise an ordinary swarm, however repugnant, like the winged monkeys in the Wizard of Oz, or the maggots that writhe on roadkill deer.

...Putin's war enablers.

Who will Bush voters hate nowadays?

The Muslims?

The commies?

The gays?

The liberals?

So many enemies.

And so much hate.

Mr. Hitchens' words are well worth reading. I also recommend his pal, Martin Amis. Be warned that hating Mr. Hitchens is di rigeur for far too many. So, enjoy him at your peril.

I stand corrected. Maggots do us a service by feeding on rancid flesh. Limbaugh has fed on the healthy tissue of America, rendering much of it rancid. There is now the American organ that tortures, the American organ that invades and occupies, and the American organ that spies on its citizens, all hurried along by Limbaugh and his submissive dittoheads.

I actually have fantasies about Rush.

Hot fantasies.

Oh...so...hot.

Wanna hear?

Rush awakes...and finds his hands on the.............................................................................................................................................steering wheel of a Hummer. In Iraq. Deep in hostile territory.

This thread is crawling with the critters. Off to Iraq with you, vermin! Freedom is on the march! Don't be left behind!

I didn't intend to get you that worked up. I once did fancy myself a writer of progressive porn, whereby Coulter and Hannity and MerelyMortalMale are found, ala Jack Black and Robert Downey, Jr. and Ben Stiller, deep in enemy territory. But then my porn collapsed as their sphincters would collapse, for I'm not into golden showers or their shitty equivalent.

Thanks. Mighty decent of you.

Regarding your gay friends in the clubs, I think they took ugly liberties. I don't think that being gay permits such penetration of intimate space.

Regarding ni**er, you raise a good question and one I also considered while on my evening walk. I think ni**er raises images of slavery and lynchings. Of course, gay people are also mutilated, so faggot should be fa**ot, another slur we dare not spell. Likewise with ki*e and others. Is this your take?

I think the whole point of being trans is to cross. That's what trans means. Shemale, which you consider clever, is used by the crotch-obsessed right, which makes it wrong right there. It also denies crossing and fixates on the former crotch, rather than the current social role. It is a reductive term and a dismissive term. Ask a transwoman friend what she thinks.

Or just say, "Hey, shemale!" and see what she says.

I don't think she'll say, "Clever lad."

...to have chatted with two transwomen.

Thanks for being open to change.

"I guess Bush's America has zapped my tolerance for devolution."

Yes, yes, yes.

Great post!

Bravo! Brava? It is said that anonymous was a woman, so I'll go with, "Brava!"

@ Juliebird: Ben Stiller couldn't actually play Coulter. Only the lovechild of Cruella De Vil and a daddy longlegs spider could.

I'm convinced. I've waffled on asterisks in the past, but it's more than silly to subsitute asterisks for one slur and not for another: it's indecent. And reading your list of uncurtained slurs gave me the heeby-jeebies, as they should. So, I agree. Thanks for pointing out my inconsistency.

Now, I'm going to Tommy Cruise you: You make me want to be a better woman.

I don't think editors manage these boards. I think interns do. That your post would be deleted, when your context and intent were quite clear, seems like an "Ooh! Those are bad words!" response. So, whereas you persuaded me, you didn't persuade the intern. I pity that intern.

Ms. Harding.

I don't know if you're long gone, but I just checked back to see if my slurs post was still present and it's deleted.

So, at Salon, "shemale" is fine and dandy, but fa**ot isn't. What an unrighteous boundary. It's sooo...Victorian: Salon doesn't hate hate, but it hates the slurs, dem dirty words.

Except for "fuck." "Fuck" is fine and just never you mind that its common applications mix sex and violence, as in, "Fuck you," making the word as pro-woman as Rush Limbaugh. But hey, hey, hey, Salon's writers like it. It makes them hip. Lenny Bruce hip. George Carlin hip. And let's not unpack its application and connotations. Let's just be hip.

Fuckin' A.